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WINDMILLS 
AND WOODEN SHOES 

BY 

MAUDE M. GRANT 



ILLUSTRATED BY 

BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND 


THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY 
DALLAS, TEXAS 
1919 



Copyrighted 1919 

BY 

THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY 
Dallas, Texas 



A597385 


PREFATORY NOTE 


In “ Windmills and Wooden Shoes” we have a con- 
tinuous story of the doings of the Dutch children, Jan 
and Katrina and their little friends. 

Teach the children to read this book so that the person- 
alities of the children depicted therein will become vividly 
lifelike to the little readers. Encourage them to bring 
to class pictures of Dutch life and of Holland scenery. 

Make the children in the book live for the children in 
the class. Let them close their eyes and see in imagina- 
tion the big windmill, the canals with the drooping willow 
trees, the slow-moving barge, and the shadows in the 
water. Picture the busy market place, and the Dutch 
children at work and at play. Teach the children the 
words and music of the little song found on page 6. Both 
the words and music have been arranged to give the 
rhythmic sound of the wooden shoes as the little Dutch 
wearers 66 klip klop ” about in their work and play. 

The lessons in the book may be illustrated by the chil- 
dren with drawings and paper cuttings, — the Dutch 
house, the windmill, the Dutch children, the flowers in 
the garden, the stork, the geese, the dog and the milk- 
cart, the boats, the wooden shoes, and many other things 
that will suggest themselves from the text to the ingen- 
ious teacher. 

MAUDE M. GRANT, 

Monroe, Michigan. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PAGK 

In the Land of Windmills and Wooden Shoes .... 7 

Holland 9 

The Hutch People 10 

The Windmills ........... 12 

Jan and Katrina .14 

The Wooden Shoes 15 

The Dutch Father 17 

The Dutch Mother 10 

The Blue Dishes 21 

Jan’s Work . . . 23 

Katrina’s Work 24 

Katrina’s Ducks 25 

Katrina’s Baking 27 

Katrina’s Mother 20 

Jan’s Dog, Rink 32 

The Little Dutch Friends 35 

Selling the Milk 36 

Hilda’s Visit 38 

The Dutch Beds 41 

The Dutch Grandmother’s House 43 

The Cuckoo Clock 46 

Grandmother’s Dutch Stove 49 

Visiting at Grandmother’s 50 


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PASS 


Jan and Katrina on the Dike 

Jan’s Birthday 

Little Wooden Shoes .... 

The Dutch Gardens 

The Barge 

Beam’s Little Sister 

The Lullaby Song 

Little Rikka 

Rikka’s Wonder-Ball .... 
The Fire and Water Man 

The Windmill Game 

The Story in Jan’s Book .... 

A Sleigh Ride on the Canal . 
Grandmother’s Story of St. Nicholas . 
Christmas in Holland .... 
Christmas Morning with Jan and Katrina 

Beam’s Rabbits 

The Market 

Winter 

Kind-hearted Jan 


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In the fields they tend great flocks of geese by the hour, 

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(Used by permission of F. A. Owen Publishing Company.) 


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IN THE LAND OF WINDMILLS 
AND WOODEN SHOES 

0, the wind it is blowing with never 
a stop, 

And the arms of the windmill go 
“Flip, flop, flop,” 

Flip, flop, flop, 

And around and round, 

Till the water is pumped and the corn 
is ground. 


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0, the Dutch wooden shoes go “Klip, 
klop, klop,” 

Toward the windmill that turns with 
its “ Flip, flop, flop,” 

Flip, flop, flop, 

And around and round, 

Till the water is pumped and the corn 
is ground. 

And the little Dutch children with 
“ Klip, klip, klop,” 

Run away to the windmill that goes 
“Flip, flop,” 

Flip, flop, flop, 

And around and round, 

Till the water is pumped and the corn 
is ground. 


HOLLAND 


Far over the sea is a country called 
Holland. It is not a large country. 
The Hutch people live in Holland. 
[ They have made dikes to keep the sea 
from their land. 

Do you know what dikes are ? 

They are huge walls made of stone. 
They are very large and strong. If a 
dike should break, the country would 
be flooded. 

There are many canals in Holland. 
Some of the canals are so large and 
deep that big ocean steamships can sail 
I on them. 

There are many boats on the canals. 
People live on the boats all the year 
round. 


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The Dutch people are very clean and 
neat. 


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Indeed, Holland is said to be the 
cleanest country in the world. 

The Dutch mothers scrub their 
houses both inside and outside. They 
scrub the bricks on the sidewalks. If 
there is a tree near by, they scrub the 
trunk of that. 

Oh, they are very, very clean. You 
would find no dust in their houses. 
Their houses are always clean and 
shining. 


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THE WINDMILLS 

There are many, 
many windmills in 
Holland. 

They whirl and 
whirl all day long. 

When the long 
arms of the wind- 
mills whirl, they make 
a creaking sound. 

The windmills are 
busy workers. 

They work for the people of Holland. 
You think that is strange, do you 
not ? Perhaps you are wondering what 
work a windmill can do as it whirls 
and whirls in the wind? 

I will tell you. 



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The windmills pump water. The 
windmills grind corn and other grain. 
The windmills saw wood, too. The 
Dutch people could not do without 
their big windmills. 


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JAN AND KATRINA 
Jan and Katrina are Dutch children. 
They live in a little blue house. 

Their house is near a big, brown 
windmill. 

The roof of their 
house is made of red 
tile. 

Near the chimney 
is a big stork’s nest. 

It is made of sticks 
and straw. 

Jan and Katrina 
like to watch the 
storks. 

They are glad when 
the little storks peep out of the nest. 



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THE WOODEN SHOES 


J an and Katrina wear wooden shoes. 
When they walk, the shoes go “Klip, 
klop, klip, klop” 


I think it would be 
hard to walk in wooden 
shoes. 



Do you not think so ? 


Katrina and Jan do 
not think so. 


They can run and 
jump and walk in their 
wooden shoes. 


They keep them very clean and 
white. They scrub them every night 
before they go to bed. Then they are 
all nice and clean to put on in the 
morning. 


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You might think that a wooden shoe 
is heavy. It is not heavier than your 
own shoe. 

It is smooth inside. It is as smooth 
as your own little shoe. 

It is held on the foot by a leather 
strap. Some wooden shoes are painted 
and have patterns on them. Others 
are scrubbed as white as snow. 



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THE DUTCH FATHER 

Katrina and Jan get up very early in 
the morning. Their father and mother 
get up early too. 

Their father goes out in his fishing 
boat. He is gone all day. At sunset, 
he comes home. 

Katrina and Jan run to meet him. 
Sometimes they run on the high dike. 
They tell their father all that has hap- 
pened during the day. 

They are very happy together. 

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THE DUTCH MOTHER 

Katrina’s mother has some cows. 
They are black and white. The Dutch 
mother gets up early in the morning to 
milk the cows. 

She puts the milk into shining pans. 
Then she waits for the cream to rise. 
She takes the cream and from it she 
makes butter and cheese. 

Katrina helps her mother. She 
churns the butter. Sometimes she puts 
the cheeses on the shelves. 

Katrina’s mother makes brown bread 
and white bread. Katrina likes the 
brown bread, but Jan likes the white 
bread best. He likes to eat it with 
butter and honey. 


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THE BLUE DISHES 


Katrina’s mother has some pretty 
dishes. They are blue and white 
dishes. 

Katrina has a little plate. Jan has a 
plate, too. They use their plates at 
breakfast, dinner, and supper. 

Katrina likes to wash her mother’s 
blue and white dishes. She dries them 
with a little towel. When she dries 
them, she puts them away in the cup- 
board. She is very careful. She puts 
them neatly on the shelves in the cup- 
board. 


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JAN’S WORK 

Jan’s mother wants Jan and Katrina 
to be busy children. She does not 
want them to play all the time. 

So Jan drives the black and white 
cows to the green meadow. At night 
he goes after them. He tends the 
geese, too. They have great flocks of 
geese. 

Katrina helps Jan watch the geese in 
the meadow. They are big, white 
geese. They look like patches of snow 
on the green meadow. 


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KATRINA’S WORK 



Katrina’s mother is 
very kind to her. 

She gave her some 
knitting needles one 
day. She gave her a 
big ball of red yarn. 

She showed Katrina 
how to knit. 

Katrina learned 
very fast. 

Soon she could 
knit as well as her mother. 

Her mother showed her how to knit 
stockings, mittens, lace, and even a 
hood. Katrina is very proud of her 
knitting work. 


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KATRINA’S DUCKS 

Katrina has some ducks of her own. 

They are big, white ducks. 

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She is fond of her big, white ducks. 
She takes them to the little pond in 
the meadow. They like to swim in the 
pond. 

Katrina takes her knitting with her. 
She knits while the ducks swim. 

The ducks say “Quack, quack,” as 
they swim about. Katrina sings a little 
song while she knits. She sings : 

“ 0, the arms of the windmill 
Are high, oh, so high, 

And they creak and they creak 
As they go whirling by, 

0, I wonder, I wonder, 

Do they touch the sky, 

The arms of the mill 
As they go whirling by?” 


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KATRINA’S BAKING 

“ Will you make me some rolls, 
Katrina ? ” asked Jan one day. “ Bram 
and I are going out in the meadow. 
Mother said we could stay until it is 
time to bring the cows home.” 

“But I have no meal,” said Katrina. 

“I will go over to Mynheer Van’s 
windmill. I will bring you some meal,” 
said Jan. So Jan ran to the windmill 
and brought home the meal. 

Katrina made him some rolls. She 
made him a cake too. She put little 
seeds in the cake. It was very good. 

Then she got a pat of butter and a 
slice of cheese. She put the rolls, cake, 
butter, and cheese in a basket. She 

spread a clean napkin over the top. 

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“ Here is your lunch, Jan,” she called. 
“There is enough for Brain, too.” 

“You are a good little sister, Katrina. 
Thank you very much,” said Jan. Then 
he and Bram went away to the meadow 

to stay until sunset. 

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KATRINA’S MOTHER 
The Dutch mother is busy all day. 
She looks very neat at her work. She 
wears a blue dress. She wears a stiff 
white cap. She wears a big brown 
apron. 


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Sometimes when it is cool, she wears 
a pretty red shawl. She has some 
gold ear-rings. 

Eatrina says she is going to wear 
gold ear-rings when she grows up. She 
thinks her mother’s ear-rings are very 
pretty. 

Katrina’s mother wears wooden 
shoes, too, but her shoes are much 
larger than Jan’s or Katrina’s. 

Jan’s mother made him a little coat. 
She made it of blue cloth. She put big 
brass buttons on it. 

Jan likes to count his buttons. He 
plays a game with them. He makes a 
wish; and pointing to his buttons, he says, 

Yes, no, yes, no.” He pretends the 

buttons tell him if he will get his wish. 

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Jan is proud of 
his fine blue coat. 

He wears it 
when he goes to 
town. 

The mother 
made Katrina 
a little stiff 
cap and a 
pretty white 
apron. The 
apron had 
lace on it. 
Katrina’s mother knit the lace. 


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JAN’S DOG, RINK 

Jan has a dog. He is a good strong 
dog. His name is Rink. 

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Jan has a big cart. It is a milk cart. 
It is always full of tall, shining milk- 
cans. 

Rink draws the cart. He draws it to 
the town. Jan drives him. 

When they go to the town, Jan sells 
his good sweet milk. Jan is kind to 
Rink. He helps him pull the cart 
when the way is rough. He pats Rink 
on the head and says, “Good Rink, 
good Rink. You are a good dog. I 
will give you a big bone when I get 
home.” 

And Jan always does what he says. 
He always gives Rink a bone, and a 
drink of fresh water, when he comes 
back from the town. 


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THE LITTLE DUTCH FRIENDS 

Hilda, Kassie, and Karl are little 
Dutch children, too. They do not live 
far from the blue house where Jan and 
Katrina live. 

They live over on the other side of 
the big, brown windmill. They come 
to play with Jan and Katrina. Katrina 
and Jan go over to play with them. 

Hilda, Kassie, and Karl live in a 
red house. It is by the canal. 

The children like to play there. 
They have a little flatboat. They sail 
around on the canal. Sometimes they 
sail under the little bridge by the 
meadow. 


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SELLING THE MILK 
“ 0 mother,” said Katrina one day, 
“there goes Jan to town with the milk 
cart ! May I go with him and Rink ? 
Please let me go, mother ? ” 

“Yes, Katrina,” said mother, “you 
may go, but you must take your knitting 
with you. You can knit as you walk 
along with Jan beside the milk cart, 
and when the milk is sold, you may 
ride home in the cart.” 

So Katrina ran for her knitting, and 
soon she was walking along by the 
side of Jan and Rink. 

Her ball of yarn was in the big pocket 
of her apron, and she knit busily as she 
walked. She was careful not to drop 
any stitches. 


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When they came to the town, 
Katrina helped Jan sell the milk. Soon 
all the milk was sold and the big cans 
were empty. 

“ Get in the cart, Katrina,” said Jan, 
“ and have a ride home.” “No,” said 
Katrina, “it is such a warm day, and 
poor Rink is tired. Just think ! He 
pulled all these heavy milk cans to 


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HILDA’S VISIT 

Hilda came over to the blue house 
one day. Jan’s mother was busy. She 
was washing her pretty blue dishes. 
She was all alone. 

“Where is Jan?” asked 

“Jan has gone to town 
with Rink and the cart, 
said Mother. 

“ Where is Katrina ?” 

“Katrina has gone 
over to the wind- 
mill to get 
water,” said 
Mother. 

“ She will be 
home soon. 

“ Come in, Hilda.” 

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So Hilda went in and sat down in 
J an’s little red chair. “ Katrina said 
she would come and play with me. I 
will wait for her,” said Hilda. 

“ Where are you going to play ? ” 
asked Mother. 

“We are going to play by the canal,” 
said Hilda, “ and Karl says he will take 
us to ride in the boat.” 

“ There is Katrina now,” said Mother. 
“ See ! she has two pails of water. How 
careful she is ! She does not spill a drop ! ” 

Katrina was very glad to see Hilda. 
She set her pails of water on the broad 
shelf in the kitchen. 

“Here is the fresh water, Mother,” 
she cried; “now you can have a nice 
cool drink.” 


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Then she and Hilda ran away to play 
with Karl and Kassie down by the 
canal. 


40 


THE DUTCH BEDS 


The Dutch beds are not like our beds. 

They are built in the walls of houses 

like cupboards. They are like little 

shelves or presses in the wall. 

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They have feather beds on them. 
The feather beds are nice and soft. 

In summer, the Dutch boys and girls 
have quilts over them. In the winter, 
they sleep on one feather bed, and have 
another feather bed and quilts to cover 
them. They are very warm. 

Katrina has a blue and white quilt on 
her bed. Jan has a red and green 
quilt. Their grandmother made the 
quilts for them. 

Their grandmother is a dear little 
Dutch lady who lives down near the 
ocean. The children like to go and see 
her. 


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THE DUTCH GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE 
Jan’s grandmother lives in a little 
pink and white house by the sea. You 
can hear the waves as they come up 

on the sandy shore. 

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You can stand in grandmother’s gar- 
den and look away out over the sea. 

Sometimes the water looks bright 
and blue. Sometimes it looks deep 
and green. Sometimes it looks dark 
gray, and the waves have white caps 
of foam. The children call them the 
u Sea-King’s White Horses.” 

Grandmother’s house is very neat 
and clean. She has brick floors in her 
house. She covers her brick floors 
with clean white sand. 

Grandmother has a very old black 
table in her house. She has some old 
black chairs, too. She rubs them every 
day. They are always bright and shin- 
ing. 

Grandmother loves to keep them so. 

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Jan says he can see his face in the 
top of grandmother’s table. It is so 
shiny that it is like a looking-glass. 

Grandmother has a row of plates on 
her wall. They look like silver. 

She has some blue dishes, too. Ka- 
trina says that they are like her 
mother’s dishes. They have boats and 
windmills on them. 

Grandmother says they are Delft 
dishes. They were made in Delft. 
Delft is a city in Holland where they 
make beautiful dishes. 


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THE CUCKOO CLOCK 



Jan’s grandmother has 
a clock. It is a beauti- 
ful clock. It is made 
of carved wood. It is 
made in the shape of a 
little house. 

There is a door in the 
house and there are 
windows. 

The weights that hang 
down look like big 
acorns. 

The numbers on the 
face of the clock are 
white. 

The hands are white, 
too. 


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When it is time for the clock to 
strike, a little bell rings. The little 
door flies open. Out pops a dear little 
white bird. It is a cuckoo. It says 
“ Cuckoo, cuckoo ! ” 

If it is three o’clock, it says “Cuckoo” 
three times. If it is six o’clock, it says 
“ Cuckoo ” six times. 

What hour does it say “ Cuckoo ” 
the most times ? What name do we 
call that hour in the day-time? When 
does it say “ Cuckoo ” only once ? 

Grandmother winds the cuckoo clock 
once a week. She winds it every 
Sunday morning. She winds it just 
before she goes to church. 


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GRANDMOTHER’S DUTCH STOVE 

Grandmother has a large stove. It 
is not at all like our stoves. Our 
stoves are made of iron and are black. 

Grandmother’s Dutch stove is white. 
It is made of white porcelain. There 
are pretty colored pictures on grand- 
mother’s stove. 

Jan and Katrina like to go to grand- 
mother’s on a cold day and sit before 
her pretty stove. They take off their 
wooden shoes and get their toes warm. 

Grandmother sits beside the stove, 
too. She tells them pretty stories about 
the pictures on her stove. 


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VISITING AT GRANDMOTHER’S 

Grandmother asked Jan and Katrina 
to come and visit her one day. She 
told them to bring their friends, Hilda, 
Kassie, Karl, and Bram with them. 

Hilda, Kassie, Karl, and Bram were 
all glad to go. So they dressed in 
their best. 

“We will meet by the windmill,” 
they said, “and we will go along the 
dike to grandmother’s house.” So they 
met at the windmill, and away they 
went all together. 

Grandmother was looking for them. 
She took them into the house. She 
gave them each a bowl of curds and 
whey and some nice, fresh honey cakes. 

“ Oh, how good this is! ” cried Kassie. 

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“Yes, yes, Grandmother, no one can 
make curds and whey like yours,” said 
Jan. 

“ Or honey cakes either,” said Karl. 

When the children went home, grand- 
mother gave each one of them a honey 
cake cut like a heart. She gave each 
one a pretty shell. 

The children said, “We have had 
such a good time, grandmother.” 

And grandmother said, “ I have had 
a good time, too, children. You must 

come to see me again soon.” 

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JAN AND KATRINA ON THE DIKES 

Jan and Katrina like to run on the 
dike. It is wide, and quite like a road. 
They take Rink and the cart up on the 
dike too. 

Rink likes to run on the dike. He 
likes to feel the fresh air blow in from 
the sea. 

When they are up on the dike, Jan 
and Katrina can see all around. They 
can see far, far away. They can look 
out over the broad ocean. They see 
the big boats and the little boats sailing 
to and fro. 

Jan points to the ocean and says, 
“ Katrina, away, away over the ocean, 
where those big boats are sailing, is 
America. American boys and girls live 

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there. It is a 
fine country 
and very 
large.” 

“Do you 
think we will 
ever go to 
America, Jan?” 
asks little Ka- 
trina. 

“Perhaps, 
some day,” an- 
swers Jan. 

When Jan 
and Katrina 
are up on the 
dike, they can 
look over their 


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own land. They can see the canals and 
the bridges and the boats. 

They can see the beautiful gardens. 
They can see the bright houses, and 
the big windmills that whirl round and 
round. 

They can see the girls tending geese 
in the fields. They can see the black 
and white cows eating grass in the 
meadows. They can see the men with 
their dog-carts going along the road to 
town. 


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JAN’S BIRTHDAY 

It is Jan’s birthday. He is eight 
years old. He is a very happy little 
boy. 

He has many fine birthday presents. 

Father gave him a beautiful little toy 
boat. It has sails on it and it can go 
very fast. 

Mother gave him a book. In it is a 
story of a boy named Peter. Jan will 
tell you about it when he reads his 
book. 

Katrina gave Jan a red cap that she 
knit herself, and Grandmother gave 
him a beautiful little green and yellow 
bird in a cage. 

Jan says, “ Everybody is so good to 

me on my birthday.” 

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0, Jan was very happy ! 

And then in the afternoon, mother 
asked Hilda and Bram and Karl and 
Kassie to come over. She set the table 
out in the garden. 

In the middle of the table was a big 
pink birthday cake. It had nuts on 
the top of it. It was very good. The 
children all said so. And they knew, 
for they ate it all ! 


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LITTLE WOODEN SHOES 

Who looks like a tulip on every bright 
day, 

As he works in the meadow and pitches 
the hay, 

In his pretty red cap and his waist-coat 
so gay ? 

Little Wooden Shoes. 

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Who looks like a daffy-do wn-dillj so 
fair, 

With a pretty white cap on her neat 
yellow hair, 

And the bright orange gown it delights 
her to wear? 

Little Wooden Shoes. 

Can you guess who these “ Wooden 
Shoes” really are, 

In the Land of the Windmills, so quaint 
and so far? 

How listen, and I’ll tell you just who 
they are, 

Katrina and Jan ! 


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THE DUTCH GARDENS 

No one can think of a more beautiful 
sight than the Dutch gardens in spring. 
They are full of red, yellow, white and 
pink tulips. 

There are rows and rows of purple, 
pink and white hyacinths. 

There are great fields of yellow 
daffodils. They look like patches of 
sunshine. 

There are rows and rows of beautiful 
white narcissus plants. The sweetness 
of these plants fills the air. 

Katrina and Jan love to go into 
the beautiful gardens. They pull the 
weeds from the flower beds. 

They like to watch the big, buzzing 

bees fly around among the flowers. 

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They like to see the pretty butterflies 
flitting here and there. Some of the 
butterflies are white and red, and some 
are big and yellow. 

“The white and red butterflies look 
like tulips flying away,” said Jan. 

“ The yellow butterflies look like 
daffodils,” said little Katrina. 


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THE BARGE 


B ram’s father has a barge. Do you 
know what a barge is ? 

It is a big flat boat. The barge of 
Bram’s father is red and yellow. 

It has big blue sails. It looks very 
pretty as it sails down the canals. 
Bram’s father often takes him out in 
the barge. 

Sometimes Bram asks Jan and 
Katrina, Hilda, Kassie, and Karl to go 
with him. 

When the flowers of the tulips and 
hyacinths have faded, the Dutch people 
dig up the bulbs from which grow the 
stems of the plants. 

The Dutch people are very proud 
of their fine tulips. 

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They pack the bulbs care- 
fully. They sell them and 
make a great deal of money. 

Bram’s father sails his barge 
on the canals to the tulip fields. 
Then Bram and Jan and Ka- 
trina and Kassie and Hilda 
and Karl help dig up the tulip 
bulbs. They put them in boxes 
on the barge. 

They work busily all the long 
day. 

“ I wonder who will plant 
these bulbs?” asked Bram.. 

“Perhaps some boy in America,” 
answered Karl ; “ every year we send 
thousands of bulbs to America. The 

Americans love our Dutch tulips.” 

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When the sun is setting, they sail 
back in the big barge. Past the green 
meadows they sail, past the yellow 
and blue farmhouses with red tiled roofs. 

They glide slowly along. The big 
barge makes pretty ripples in the smooth 
water. 


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They see the black and white cows 
waiting to be milked. They hear the 
cowbells tinkle. They see the Dutch 
boys and girls carrying water in big 
pails. 

They sail past the big, brown wind- 
mill. They see its arms go slowly 
round. It makes pretty shadows on 
the water in the canal. 

They see the willow trees bending 
down to look in the water. And they 
hear the little birds singing their good- 
night songs. 

The sun sinks down, down. The sky 
is all red and yellow and orange. The 
purple shadows begin to fall. Night is 
coming — and here they are at home 
again ! 


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BRAM’S LITTLE SISTER 
Brain has a little sister. She is a 
dear little baby. She has round red 
cheeks. She has curly yellow hair. 
She has big blue eyes. Her name is 
Annetka. 


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Little Annetka has a cradle. It is 
made of carved wood. It is a very old 
cradle. 

Little Annetka’s grandfather was 
rocked in that very same cradle when 
he was a baby. So you can see that it 
is very old. 

Bram loves his little sister. He likes 
to rock her in the quaint, old cradle. 

Sometimes he sings to her. He sings 
her the song his mother sings. 

This is the one he likes best. 

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THE LULLABY SONG 
The wind blows in from the sea to- 
night, 

Sleep, little daffodil, sleep, 

In the sky the little stars twinkle bright, 
Sleep, little daffodil, sleep. 

And the windmill goes creaking around 
and around, 

And the shades of the night are now 
purpling the ground, 

All the flowers close their eyes and 
are now sleeping sound, 

So sleep, little daffodil, sleep. 


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LITTLE KIKKA 

Rikka is one of Katrina’s little Dutch 
friends. She lives near grandmother’s 
house by the sea. 

Her father is a fisherman. He works 
on the fishing-boat with Jan’s father. 

Sometimes the fathers take the chil- 
dren out on the ocean in the big fish- 
ing-boats. The big green waves rock 
the boat up and down. 

Rikka and Katrina like to sit in the 
front end of the boat. They like to 
feel on their faces the salt spray from 
the ocean. 

Jan helps the men with the nets. 
He thinks he is like a man when he 
works with them. Rikka’ s father says 

that Jan is a good worker. 

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RIKKA’S WONDER-BALL 
Rikka did not want to learn to knit. 
She said it was too hard. She said she 
would rather play on the beach. 

Her mother said to her, “Rikka, if 
you will learn to knit, I will give you a 
£ Wonder-Ball.’ ” 

“A £ Wonder-Ball!’ What is that, 
mother ? ” asked Rikka. 

“It is a ball of yarn,” said her mother. 
“ There are little presents or surprise 
gifts wound up in the ball. As you 
knit the yarn from the ball, the gifts 
fall out.” 

“ Oh, I should like a Wonder-Ball, 
Mother,” cried Rikka. “ I will learn to 
knit and I will knit fast so that I can 

knit my presents from the ball.” 

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Rikka’ s mother made her a “Wonder- 
Ball.” It was a very big, blue ball. 

She gave Rikka some 
shining needles and 
taught her how 
to knit. 

Rikka 
tried and 

tried, and at last she learned to knit. 
It was very hard at first, but she did 
not give up. 

The first gift she knit from her ball 
was a little silver pencil. She was 
much pleased with it. 

She knit hard 
every day. 

It seemed a long time before she 
came to the next gift. 

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Then a pretty chain of red beads came 
out of the “Wonder-Ball.” 

She knit and knit away. The gifts 
she knit from the “ Wonder-Ball” were 
many. 

She sang a little song as she worked. 
She called it her “ Knitting Song.” 
Click, clack, click, clack, 

On go the needles, forward and back, 
Careful never a stitch to drop, 

Busily knit with never a stop. 
Forward and back, forward and back, 

Bright little needles, click, click, clack. 
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Among her gifts was a little gold ring 
with a blue stone in it. She had also 
a wooden bird, a tiny 
doll, and a thimble. 
She called her thim- 
ble her “finger-hat.” 

Rikka was very 
happy. She thanked 
her good mother many 
times for the lovely, 
big “Wonder-Ball.” 
Rikka soon learned to 
knit very well. She liked 
to knit even when she had no “ Wonder- 
Ball.” She knit a scarf for her father. 
She knit a jacket for her doll. “It is 
such fun to make things,” said busy 
little Rikka. 



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THE FIRE AND WATER MAN 
J an and Katrina were down at 
Brain’s house. Bram’s house is by the 
canal. 

Down the canal came a man in a 
boat. Now and then the man would 
call “ Fire ” in a loud voice. Then he 
would call “Water.” 

He was the Fire-and-Water Man. 
He sells fire and water to the people 
by the canal. 

Bram’s mother called, “ Quick, Bram ! 
Here comes the Fire-and-Water Man ! 
Run for the shovel and buy some coals 
of fire from him. I need water, too. 
Take the big blue pail with the cover, 
then you will not spill any of the water. 
Hurry, Bram ! ” 


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“ I will take your pail to the man,” 
said Jan: “ I will carry the water and 
Bram can carry the fire.” 

So Bram and Jan ran down to the 
boat and bought hot coals and fresh 
water from the man. 

Then the man sailed on down the 
canal in his boat. They could hear 
him calling “ Fire ” and “ Water.” He 
was going to sell fire and water to 
other Dutch mothers. 



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THE WINDMILL GAME 
Jan and Katrina like to play the 
Windmill Game. They get Bram and 
Hilda and Kassie and Karl to play 
with them. 


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This is the way they play the game. 
Each one chooses a partner. They 
stand back to back. They stretch out 
their arms. They wave their arms up 
and down. When one arm goes up 
the other arm goes down. They look 
like a windmill whirling around. 

They sing: 

Windmill, windmill, whirl around 
With a whirring, creaking sound, 

Up and down, 

Away we go, 

Windmills go both fast and slow. 

It takes two children to make a 
windmill in this Windmill Giame. If 
Jan and Hilda and Kassie and Karl 
and Bram and Katrina all play, how 

many windmills do they make ? 

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THE STORY IN JAN’S BOOK 

Do you remember the book that 
Jan’s mother gave him for his birth- 
day? 

Jan has read the book now. He will 
tell you the story of little Peter. He 
likes it the best of all the stories in his 
book. 

THE STORY 

Peter was a little Dutch boy. He 
lived in Holland. He lived by the big 
dike. The dike was very big and very 
strong. It kept the sea from the land 
of Holland. 

Peter knew how men watched the 
dikes. He knew that they had to do 
it, for if a leak came in the dike, the 

water would rush in. 

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The dike would break and the water 
would cover the land. 

One day Peter’s mother said to Peter, 
“Peter, I wish you would take your 
father’s dinner to him. He is working: 
far, far down on the shore. You may 
run along on the dike if you wish.” 

So Peter started out with his basket. 
He went along the dike. He had gone 
quite far, and was tired, so he sat 
down to rest. 

As he sat there, he heard a trickling 
sound. “ That sounds like water trick- 
ling in a hole,” said Peter to himself. 

He looked around. At last he found 
a little hole in the dike. The water 
was trickling in. 

It was only a tiny stream. 

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“0, what shall I do?” said Peter. 
He ran to see if there was any one 
coming. But he could see no one. So 
he ran back to the hole in the dike 
and put his little hand over the hole. 
His hand stopped the water from com- 
ing in. 

Poor Peter called and called, but no 
one heard. He became very stiff and 
lame, but he did not take his hand 
from the hole in the dike. 

At last the sun went down, and it 
began to grow dark. Peter’s father 
and mother came to look for him. They 
found him cold and frightened with his 
little hand over the leak in the dike. 

Men came with their tools and 
mended the dike. 


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“ Brave, brave Peter,” they said. 
“ Yon have saved your country from a 
great flood.” 

All the people thought Peter was 
very brave indeed. They came to see 
him and brought him gifts. Even the 
king thanked Peter and. sent him a bag 
of gold. 

“ I think Peter was very brave and 
very unselfish,” said Jan. “He did 
not think of himself* though he was 
cold and stiff and frightened. He 
thought of all the people who would 
lose their homes and lives, and so, 
though he was only a little boy, he 
was brave and strong enough to save 
his country from the sea.” 


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A SLEIGH RIDE ON THE CANAL 


One cold afternoon in winter, Jan’s 
mother said, “You may hitch Rink to 
the big sled, Jan, and you and Katrina 
may ride away down the canal to 
grandmother’s house. Grandmother 
knows you are coming. 

“ You are to stay all night. Father and 
I are going to the festival in the city.” 

“ Oh, good, good ! ” cried Jan, and 
he ran out to tell Katrina. 

Katrina was very happy, for she liked 
nothing better than to go to grand- 
mother’s house. 

She clapped her hands. “I will get 
ready at once,” she cried. “What a 
good time we will have with grand- 
mother ! ” 


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Jan hitched Rink to the big red 
sled. Rink seemed to know he was 
going to grandmother’s, for he barked 
and wagged his tail for joy. 

Then Jan and Katrina got ready for 
their long ride on the canal. Jan put 
on three coats and a warm muffler. 
He wore two caps on his head. Ka- 
trina put on two coats and a shawl, 
and wore two hoods. 

Their mother tucked them up warmly 
on the big sled. She gave them a basket 
full of goodies to take to grandmother. 
She stood in the door of their little blue 
house and waved her hand. “Good- 
by, my little ones, good-by,” she called, 
“grandmother will be watching for 
you.” 


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With a bound, Rink was off, and 
away they went over the smooth ice 
on the canal. They went by the brown 
windmill. They saw Hilda, Karl, and 
Kassie playing in the snow. Hilda, 
Karl, and Kassie shouted at them and 
waved their hands. Jan and Katrina 
waved back to their friends, and Rink 
ran on and on. 


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GRANDMOTHER’S STORY 


It was night. Jan and Katrina and 
grandmother had had their supper. 
Katrina had helped grandmother wash 
the dishes. It was not time for bed. 

“Let us sit down before the fire, 
Grandmother,” said Jan, “ and you can 
tell us a story.” 

“0 yes, please, Grandmother,” cried 
little Katrina, and she ran to get grand- 
mother’s big armchair with the red 
cushions. 

Grandmother smiled and sat down in 
the chair. It had big, wide arms. Jan 
sat on one arm of the chair and Katrina 
sat on the other. 

“ What shall I tell you about ? ” 

asked grandmother. 

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“Tell us about St. Nicholas,” said 
Jan. “ You know, Grandmother, it is 
nearly time for him to come.” 

u Why, so it is,” said grandmother. 
Then she began : 

11 Far, far away from here, in the for- 
est of Christmas trees, lives an old man. 

He has white 
hair, a long 
h i t e 
beard 
and the 
s ,, bright- 
' est eyes 
you ever saw. 
He wears a 
beautiful red 
suit, and it is 


trimmed with the whitest of fur. The 
name of this good old man is St. 
Nicholas. All the year long, in his 
forest of Christmas trees, St. Nicholas is 
busy making toys and sweetmeats for 
the good little boys and girls.” 

“What toys does he make, Grand- 
mother?” asked Katrina. 

“0, little wooden dogs and horses 
and birds and pigs and chickens and 
dolls and doll-houses,” answered grand- 
mother. 

Then she went on with her story. 
“ St. Nicholas has a beautiful big white 
horse. 

“At Christmas time he takes the white 
horse from its stall. ‘Come, my horse,’ 
says St. Nicholas. ‘It is Christmas 

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time once again, and you must take me 
all over the land to visit the little Dutch 
boys and girls.’ Then St. Nicholas 
calls his black servant. He lets him 
ride on a black horse and gives him 
two bags to carry. One bag 
is full of toys and goodies for 
the good children, and in the 
other bag is a switch with 
which to beat the bad 
children. All 
through the 
night St. Nich- 
olas rides on 
his white horse. 

“The little 
Dutch chil- 
dren put their 



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wooden shoes down by the fireplace. 
Near by, they put a basket of hay and 
carrots for the white horse of St. 
Nicholas. 

“ In the morning, when the good 
children get up, the hay and the carrots 
are gone, and the wooden shoes are full 
of toys and goodies.” 

11 What a nice story,” says Katrina. 



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CHRISTMAS IN HOLLAND 
It is Christmas Eve. Jan and Ka- 
trina have taken off their wooden shoes. 
They have scrubbed them white as 
snow, and they have set them down 
by the fireplace. 

“We must not forget the white 
horse,” says Jan. 

So, near by, they have placed a 
pretty red and yellow basket. In it 
are some carrots, some hay, and some 
oats. They are for the white horse of 
St. Nicholas. 

Mother tucks the children in their 
funny Dutch beds in the wall. 

They look very snug and warm. 
Their round cheeks are very red and 

their eyes are very bright. 

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a I hope St. Nicholas will not leave 
me a switch, Mother,” says Jan. 

u 0, I hope not,” says Katrina. “ You 
do not think he will, do you, Mother ? ” 
Mother smiles and shakes her head : 
“I cannot tell, my little ones,” she says. 
“ Go to sleep now, and in the morning 
we shall see.” 

So Jan and Katrina turn their faces 
to the wall. They cuddle up in their 
warm feather beds and go to sleep. 


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CHRISTMAS MORNING 


Jan and Katrina got up early on 
Christmas morning. They ran to the 
fireplace. There were the wooden 
shoes ! 

They were 
filled with 
good things. 

There were 
toys on the 
floor beside 
the shoes. 

“0 Mother! Father! Come quick! 
See what the good St. Mcholas has 
brought us ! ” cried Jan and Katrina. 

“ What beautiful gifts ! ” says mother. 
u St. Mcholas must think you are good 
children.” 



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St. Nicholas 
brought Jan 
a little wood- 
en horse on 
wheels. 

He brought 
him a woolly 
lamb that says 
“Baa” when 
you press a 
spring in its 
back. 

Jan had three 
books, too, 
and a pen 
and a red pen- 
holder. What 
fine gifts ! 




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Katrina had a little cradle for her 
doll. She had a doll-cart. She had a 
gold chain, a lace collar, and a pretty 
blue gown. 

Jan and Katrina also had many 

sweetmeats, nuts, and little cakes. 
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BRAM’S RABBITS 


Bram’s father gave him some rabbits. 
They are white rabbits, with pink eyes. 
They have long, pink ears. They are 
very pretty. They like to eat clover 
and cabbage and lettuce. 

Katrina and Jan like to go to Bram’s 
house. When they go there, Jan says, 
“Let us go out and see the rabbits, 
Bram.” And Brain says, “ All right. 
Come on, Katrina.” But Katrina wants 
to stay and play with baby Annetka. 

“ You go on, boys,” says she. “ I will 
come by and by.” 

So the boys go out to see the rabbits. 
Katrina plays with little Annetka. She 
throws a big ball to the baby. The 

baby tries to catch it, but she cannot. 
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Katrina puts Annetka in her little 
cart. She rides her up and down on 
the brick path in the garden. The 
baby likes to See the pretty flowers. 
She likes to look at the white shells 
and stones by the garden path. 

By and by Annetka’s mother comes 
out. “It is time for your nap, baby,” 
says she. So she takes little Annetka 
into the house. 

Then Katrina runs away to see the 
rabbits. 


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THE MARKET 


One day Katrina and Jan went to 
market with Brain and his father. 
They sailed down the canal on the 
barge. 

The market place was full of noise 
and busy life. 

There were hens and ducks and 
geese that cackled and quacked and 
hissed. 

There were rows and rows of cheeses-, 
pats of yellow butter, and honeycombs 
dripping with honey. 

There were dog-carts filled with 
milk-cans, with apples, with potatoes, 
and other vegetables. 

There were Dutch girls selling lace 
and flowers. 


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There were bakers with trays full of 
bread, rolls, and cakes. 

Katrina bought a wooden spoon to 
take home to her mother. Jan bought 
mother a big yellow bowl. 

“Mother will like to stir cake in it,” 
he said. 

“Yes, and she can stir it with this 
nice, wooden spoon,” said little Katrina. 



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WINTER 

It is winter. The canals in Holland 
are frozen over. The ice is very smooth 
and thick. 

All the Hutch children have skates. 
Their fathers and mothers have skates, 
too. Everybody that is strong and well 
skates on the Dutch canals in Winter. 

Jan and Katrina and their little 
friends Bram and Hilda and Kassie and 
Karl all have skates. They skate up 
and down and around and around. 

They have skating matches. The 
one who can skate farthest and fastest 
beats. Sometimes Jan beats and some- 
times Karl does. 

The girls cannot skate as fast as the 
boys. 


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KIND HEARTED JAN 

One day Jan was down on the beach. 
There he saw a man with a dog and a 
cart. The man was putting sand in the 
cart. He was going to make the dog 
pull it into town. 

The poor dog was sick. His feet 
were sore and he was not strong 
enough to pull the heavy cart. 

The man had a whip. He whipped 
the poor dog. The dog moaned and 
cried. He fell down between the shafts 
of the cart. His master beat him, and 
tried to make him get up. 

Jan saw the cruel master whip the 

poor dog. He felt very sorry for the 

dog. He ran up to the man. “ You 

must not beat your dog,” said Jan. 
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“ He is old and he is not strong enough 
to pull your heavy load.” 

“ He is a good-for-nothing dog,” said 
the man. “1 wish I could sell him.” 

So Jan asked the man how much he 
wanted for the dog. Jan had enough 
money, so he bought the poor old dog. 

Tie took him home. He washed the 
dog’s sore feet. He gave him food and 
drink. He made a soft bed for him to 
lie on. 

“ He will be a playmate for Rink,” 
said Jan. “I will call him Kris.” 
Kris grew well and strong. He was 
always grateful to Jan for saving him 
from his cruel master. 


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